Unfortunately I can't take credit for this idea - I saw it on Pinterest and luckily had all the necessary tools and spare plain cushion cover ready to use!
These stencils are amazing. My sisters - Elly and Fizzy - and I had a whole multicoloured set that we used all the time when we were little, which included animals, numbers, modes of transport, shapes - you name it, we could stencil it!
I practised on a piece of scrap wrapping paper the same size as the cushion cover to work out how the quote I wanted to use would fit. Then I used a Sharpie permanent fabric marker to stencil the words onto the cover...
...and coloured in the letters.
And this was the result! I had to google "lilies" several times, as both my Dad and Jim pointed out that it was spelt wrong. It's not, it is L.I.L.I.E.S.
"When you have only two pennies left in the world buy a loaf of bread with one and a bunch of lilies with the other." Chinese proverb.
